REPUBLICANS SPLIT IN TWO.

New York, 1895

Party Success This Fall Threatened in Long Island City.

A prominent Republican of Long Island City sends the following communication to THE FARMER:

To the Editor of the Long Island Farmer:

The Democrats of Long Island City have had two parties with regular organizations and committees, and now the Republicans have split into two parties with two general committees. Last Fall the Burden wing of the party controlled the general committee and captured the primaries, and Dowling and Manley were ordered out. After Burden's defeat for Assembly the Burden organization weakened for a while and the Dowling contingent, with the aid of Henry C. Johnson, elected a new committee, thinking this would give them the power.

It appears that they forgot to read the constitution, and now City Treasurer Lucien Knapp proposes to test the validity of his pet law. he therefore has called the General Committee of 1894 together and organized them under the following article of the constitution : "Art. VIII. — The members of the several Town and City Committees now in office shall continue to hold office up to and until January 1st, 1896." If the English language means anything, the Knapp General Committee holds the fort, and if Henry C. Johnson wants to run for Senator, he had better get his harmony committee at work.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 28, 1895, p. 8.